Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
2 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
3 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
4 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
5 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
6 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
7 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
8 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
9 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
10 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
11 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
12 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
13 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
14 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
15 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
16 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |